Year 11 GCSE support thread 5 - finishing off the exams

Good luck to your DS, OddBoots. Is it the written paper for him today, too?

Haven't posted but have been lurking on this thread. We are on the homestretch now with physics today and 3 sciences next week. Also next week is Latin Lit and then Latin sources the following week. Seems like DD has exams long past many others. I am really proud of my DD who has had several physical and mental health problems for the last few years and missed a lot of school.

DS has got dance today as well, it is going to be his lowest grade but I am so glad he has done it.

He was allowed to do it in his PE slot instead of non-GCSE PE. He has hypermobility and the type of movement he has done in dance has helped strengthen his core and reduced some of his pain, it is also a group of mainly girls and it has helped him overcome some of his awkwardness around them.

As a maths and science geek with asperger's he isn't really your typical dance student but I think it has done him the world of good - I'm not sure how he is going to replace it next year.

Hi Tranquility, I bet she (and you!) will be glad to get today over with. Sounds a bit gruelling.

Morning everyone :)

Dance and Physics here today. This is likely to be DD's hardest day (Dance was such a mistake!) so I think we'll just be pleased when today is over. She has had other days with more than one exam but she needs a high mark for the written Dance part as the performance went badly, and P2 is the Physics module she finds most difficult. And the there's the hay fever...

Still, after this just 3 more next week. Good luck to everyone for today.

There will be angst. We have had to order a suit in because of DS1s ridiculous leg dimensions.

Morning HSMM.

Morning, Torres. Morning, Sparkling. Hope the prom shopping goes well.

DS's prom venue has recently turned into something of a building site so the arrival photos should be, erm, interesting. That backdrop of scaffolding and cement mixers will really set off all the outfits a treat. I doubt the arrival cars will get past the JCBs, actually. DS thinks it's funny, luckily.

Morning Line. I am awake too. Going out early for prom suit shopping after dropping DS2 at school. Weird first day of nothingness for DS1.

I woke up stupidly early again. Last night DS said I should have a lie-in today, as Physics is this afternoon. I woke up at 5.30...

This weekend will be dominated by Further Maths. The school entered a very small number of pupils for it, then kind of forgot to teach them any. DS claims he's going to watch some YouTube tutorials. Bonkers.

I'll have a much more 'interesting' time with ds than dd I think, he's got quite a complex personality and is one of life's worriers.

Sugarplum and Torres, I'll be joining you in 5 years with one finishing Uni and the other doing GCSEs. Had a bit of a taster this week as DD was doing form 6 exams as well as DS doing GCSEs. He is laid back to horizontal and takes everything in his stride whilst the wee one is a worrier. I think I'll have a much harder time with her during GCSEs when the time comes than I've had with her brother. Something to look forward to!!! I suddenly feel the need for a glass of wine whilst I contemplate this!

We'll have two Further Maths exams next week too.

I just realised that my youngest DC will be doing GCSE in 2025

DD is still laid back and happy, especially about a Philosophy question that came up today in the science and religion bit about do we still need religion.
She's a profound scientist atheist

DS1 will still be going strong next week. B3, C3, P3 and two Further Maths papers should keep him busy. He's only had 3 exams this week; it's felt like a bit of a rest. There seemed to have been some mess up with controlled assessments though as he had to do one on Tuesday after C2, following a panicked phone call from the exam board. Physics tomorrow. Hopefully there won't be any nasty surprises after that.

sidge me!

Don't go yet!

I'm with dingit, LineRunner and Fairenuff (apologies if I've missed anyone) with physics tomorrow, then biology, history, chemistry and physics next week.

So last exam the morning of the 19th, then her Prom that night, then I'm going to get drunk with DP Saturday whilst my girls are at their dad's for the weekend! I think I deserve it!

Wow, truffle! You'll be a pro! You should start a blog.....

Maybe how the sciences show up (c/a/f or biol/chem/physics) depends whether they do all the exams in the same year - so they could get core/additional by doing U1/2 in yr10 and have 2 gcses bagged, then get the additional the next year. But if you do all 3 x 3 at once you can get the separate gradings for each subject?

DS2 finishes with Physics tomorrow.

DS1 finished ASs last Friday so there will be a few tense weeks in August chez Wuffle.

I must be a glutton for punishment as DS3 is currently year 10 so I'll be going through it all again next year. DD is currently year 8 so I really will be going through the wringer for the next few years.

Spud, that does sound amazing. There's so much more than just the academics (thinking too of Sunny's equestrian daughter - I think they've ridden happily off into the sunset now! )

FM mon/Fri here too.

AuntP's DS is right about the sciences. I'm sure they must all have to be the same board for the single/double award, but if they do all 3 they can be different boards. DD's school did the Edexcel igcse chemistry(I think) but AQA for the other two. Some of them found the chemistry tough and were allowed to drop it.

Teen, dds just told me (in that voice they use like you're a toddler), she gets gcses as core, additional and further.

dingit further to Petunia's reply.

How she said it is normal, but they could get GCSEs in Core, Additional and Further, but that seems to be much much less usual.

Woolly, student loan came out in my final year and mine was about £400 too!
I still find it shocking that it's not free anymore.

Spud that is amazing. You should be proud of her - it's a fantastic achievement.

I dread to think what DD1's student debt looks like . When I finished uni my overdraft was £400 and my dad was mortified - he'd never had any debt before. This was nearly 3 decades ago though